Improvement in plows



W. HENRY.

Plow.

Patent d Mar. 29, 1864.

Witnesses W Inventor.

AM- PHOTO-LITHU. CO- N.Y. (OEBUHNEE PROCESS) angles with the beam or in a more UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\YUJLIAM 'nrnnv, or WYOMING, PENNSYLVANL-t.

|iv| PROVEMENT. m PLows.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 42,086, dated March 29, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM HENRY, ot Wyoming, in the county otLuzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Gang or Double-Share Plow; and I do I nerthat they-will becapable ot' beingadjusted at a greater or less distance apart and in line with each other transversely with the plowbeam, or with one share or plow more or less in advance of the other, whereby the device or implement maybe adapted to the-work designed for it with the greatest facility.

To'enable. those skilled inthe art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to. describe it.

A represents the beam of the plow, and B B the handles. These parts maybe constructed in theusual way, and therefore do not require a minute description.

0 represents a bar, which is secured to the under side of the beam A by a bolt,'c, said bolt passing throughlhe center of O, and the latter being allowed to turn freely on .bolt a? v The bar 0 has a semicircular bar, D, attached to it, the ends of I) being at equal distances from the ends of 0'. ThebarD is'perforated with holes I), through-any one of which a bolt, E, passes. said bolt passing through the beam,.A -antl securing the bar-U eitherinaposition at right or less ohlique position with it. 4

F F are twoplows, each of which has a vertical rod, 0, attached to it at the upper and front part of its mold-board. These rods 0 pass through holes in the bar 0, and they have screws cut on their upper ends, on which nuts 01 are fitted, and byscrewing up which the plows are secured :tothe bar 0. The plows F- F'arenot provided with the ordinary landsides,

whiohbear heavily upon the bottoms of the furfows and occasion considerable friction. .;.['nstead ofv Iandsides, I employ wheelsG, one at'the rear of each plow. These wheels Gr have.

H, theupper ends of which have each a vertical rod, f, attached, said rods passing up through a bar, I, one near each end ofit, and also passing through the back ends of bars J J, the frontends of which are fitted on the rods f have screw-threads cut on them to receive nuts 9, which nuts, as well as those d of th rods 0, bear upon the bars J The yokes or frames H are provided with arms h h one at each side, and one of these arms, h, is bent or curved downward'at its surface of the right-hand side of each plow, and the other arms, it, pass through slots j in the left-hand side of the plow. 'By this arrangement the back parts of the plows maybe more orless elevated to cause furrows of greater or less depth to be made, as desired, washers being placedon t-he rodsf underneath the bar I, for the purpose ot'tilting or inclining the t front ends of the plows downward, the arms h h, in consequence of fitting in the sockets i and slotsj, admitting of this inclining of the plows. A metal plate, H,is' titted underneath .the bars 0 D l and attached to the beam, to serve as a support for said; bars. By this aruangement it will be seen that by adjusting the bar 0 the two plows F F may be placed in line with each other in a transverse direction of the beam A, or be placed one in advance of the other, as the nature of the work may rebar 0 in the desired position, the plows F F timrirng'otrmarallelwith the beam A by screwing up the nuts (1 g on the rods 0 f.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as'new, and desire to secure by-Letters Patent, is-

The two plows ble bar 0, which is fitted in the beam A, and h s a perforated semicircular bar, D, attached to itt'nrough which a bolt, E, passes, in con- J,- and all arranged substantiallyas and for the purpose herein set forth.

' WILLIAM HENRY. I

' Witnesses: f HENR I WooDnoUsE,

{MARIA P. Woonaousn.

their axles e fitted in yokes or forked frames 0 of the plows F. The upper parts of the rods 1 outer part to fit into a socket, i, at the inner quire, the bolt E,in consequence of passing through the semicircular bar D, securing the being retained in position or prevented from F F, attached to theadjusta- -nection with the wheels Grand bar I, the latter being connected with the bar G by thebars J 

